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Anticlinal structures that include some landward-verging reverse faults (referred to as antithetic) are produced, with create the tectonic ridges that you can see in the bathymetric map in Figs. 7 and 8 above.

The young actor, best know for playing the cherubic-faced child opposite Hugh Grant in About A Boy not only shows he's grown up into a handsome young man, but that he's able to take on a subject matter antithetic to the comedy film that first made him famous.

High-energy technology has resulted in the aggregation of such huge amounts of power that small social units operating alone are often ruthlessly and unheedingly swept aside in their ends are antithetic to the purposes of those who control the power.

Science and technology, though they are frequently regarded as being antithetic to those ideas, are nevertheless included in the pattern of these ideologists; they can “prove” to their own satisfaction that because modern means of communication permit the ideas to be diffused, they must result in a universal culture.